title: Literature and art as a prologue for moral energy.
abstract: This column describes the use of selected literature and art to foster dialogue in a doctoral course in nursing surrounding issues involving healthcare ethics. Literature provides concentrated slices of reality which pose questions requiring deep reflection about human frailty, suffering, and death. Works of art nurture students' creative thinking and critical judgment and provide a vehicle to describe extraordinary vulnerable situations where nurses are engaged with others.
authors.affiliation: South Dakota State University.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hegge
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D032882:Comprehension; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003405:Creativity; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D004993:Ethics, Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009014:Morals; D033262:Narration; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013561:Symbolism; D013850:Thinking